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#107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
The Role of Social Media in Creating Optimism
I am worried about the effect social media is having on society. It's clearly accentuated the effect by good news is no news and bad news is news. We're not so pessimistic about our individual lives, interestingly, as we are about people and the planet generally. But would i give up social media? Would i give up the chance to have rampant social contact with my chums all over the world and share jokes and find out how their family is? No, i wouldn't. I think for a lot of young people in particular, it's a godsend. So we've got to live with these technologies and not let them overwhelm us.
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